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Hello and welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR) whose objective is to turn redlinks into blue ones. Our project's scope is women's biographies and women's works, broadly construed. Did you know that only 16.08% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed? Content gender gap is a form of systemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We develop redlists (lists with redlinks) and we host online edit-a-thons on various topics. Have an idea for an edit-a-thon? Mention it on our talkpage, or help coordinate it at our Ideas Cafe. We invite you to participate whenever you like in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Women in Red warmly welcomes you! |
The Ideas Cafe is our planning page, where your ideas become WiR events. Here, we organize, plan and coordinate online edit-a-thons. Are you interested in having Women in Red organize an event with your organization? Please get in touch with us! |
Contents
Common tasks for each event
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- This list is incomplete. Please add to it
- identify sponsors and/or WikiProject hosts
- create list of potential participants, including active editors from the area(s) to be covered
- create editathon banner
- create/find editathon icon
- develop the WiR redlist, find related redlink lists
- create meetup page, completing sections on
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- "Add these to articles" (stub templates, applicable categories, useful lists)
- "Add these to article talkpages" (WikiProject banners, editathon banner for the event)
- create the invite
- distribute the invite
- develop social media campaign (FB, Twitter)
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- We haven't been doing this but it would be great if we had a social media volunteer
- add Authority Control if missing to all the articles created during the event
- double-check each article for categories
- double-check each article for talkpage banners
- create the thank you and/or barnstar
- develop a list of contributors (overlaps to some degree with registered participants)
- distribute the thank you and/or barnstar after the event to the contributors
- create Wikidata entry if none exists
March
- Women's History Month
- Confirmed dates: March 1-31
- Confirmed sponsors:
- Confirmed topics and redlists:
- Comments
Note the main in-person events for Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism will mostly be around the weekend of March 5 (near International Women's Day), though others will be throughout the month.--Pharos (talk) 03:27, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- We ran a full 30 days last year to the best of my recollection. SusunW (talk) 05:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- I think we should be going forward on this one too, especially our tie-up with Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism. If our focus is not clear, it will be difficult to coordinate things efficiently.--Ipigott (talk) 12:44, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
April
- WikiProject Women Writers
- There is a draft proposal here
- possible dates
- possible sponsor
- Redlink lists:
- Comments
- I was just looking for the right place to suggest a Women in Journalism meetup when I saw your comment. It seems very timely for 2016, in part because of the stepped-up threats to journalists worldwide in recent years. Also, in my general researches, I find myself regularly coming across women who worked at some level of journalism (broadly construed) who aren't represented here, so it struck me as a potentially rich field. It occurs to me also that 'writers' is such a gigantic category that breaking it down into even just a couple of subfields could allow for more focused editathons.Alafarge (talk) 18:47, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
- Books by women
- There are a number of books by women that should probably have their own page, and one way to get those would be to focus a meetup specifically on writing up such pages. Books like: early travel memoirs and pioneer memoirs; or missing books by notable women like Germaine Greer, Elena Ferrante, Octavia Butler, etc., etc. I imagine one could start a list by scraping in redlinked books from various Wikipedia categories & then crowd-sourcing it further.Alafarge (talk) 19:10, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
- Perfect timing @Alafarge and LovelyLillith:, as Rosiestep and I were discussing writers for April. SusunW (talk) 20:42, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Rosiestep and Megalibrarygirl: Boldly setting up writers for April since several have suggested it. Do we need Journalists or books on a separate list? SusunW (talk) 18:01, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
- @SusunW and Megalibrarygirl: I didn't get a ping about this post so sorry for my delay in responding (argh!). I think writers can be broadly construed, can include journalists, and can include written works by women. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:06, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Rosiestep:, there are a ton of writers to work on. Children's and YA writers are also poorly represented on wiki. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:45, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Alafarge:, I'll start a books list. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:56, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- OK, I made a list and I started separating it not by nationality, but by type. So I've started with Children's books. We could expand with genres as well. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- Excellent! I'll join in on adding to it.Alafarge (talk) 16:27, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Megalibrarygirl: Thank you for starting the book redlist; very needed. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:53, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- Excellent! I'll join in on adding to it.Alafarge (talk) 16:27, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- OK, I made a list and I started separating it not by nationality, but by type. So I've started with Children's books. We could expand with genres as well. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Alafarge:, I'll start a books list. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:56, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Rosiestep:, there are a ton of writers to work on. Children's and YA writers are also poorly represented on wiki. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:45, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- @SusunW and Megalibrarygirl: I didn't get a ping about this post so sorry for my delay in responding (argh!). I think writers can be broadly construed, can include journalists, and can include written works by women. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:06, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Rosiestep and Megalibrarygirl: Boldly setting up writers for April since several have suggested it. Do we need Journalists or books on a separate list? SusunW (talk) 18:01, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
- Perfect timing @Alafarge and LovelyLillith:, as Rosiestep and I were discussing writers for April. SusunW (talk) 20:42, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
- NYC events
- We can try to do an event at New York Public Library for this. And also, several people in the WP:NYCEDU group have been specializing in developing novel articles in a classroom context, particularly for Octavia Butler.--Pharos (talk) 18:49, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
May
- Women in Photography Month
- possible dates
- possible sponsor
- Redlink lists: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Women photographers
- Guggenheim / MENA artists
- We can potentially do a multi-lingual, multi-Wikipedia campaign, similar to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Asian Month, but focused on women modern and contemporary artists from the Middle East & North Africa. This would be related to the Guggenheim's MAP project to highlight artists from several underrepresented parts of the world.--Pharos (talk) 18:58, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
- Copied from the WiR talk page
The Guggenheim has invited WMNYC and WiR to collaborate in early May (7-10 days) focusing on MENA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MENA). They are working on redlist(s). WMNYC will focus on a group of artists. If WiR is agreeable with working on MENA, we can focus on MENA women's biographies in general. (cc: @Pharos:). I know WiR has tentatively committed to focusing on photographers in May. The Guggenheim's curator may be able to sponsor a photography event later in 2016, but not in May. Do you want to keep photographers on the May calendar, or postpone till Guggenheim confirms; and if keep in May, thoughts on which days? May is a long way away and we do have our hands full right now, so no worries if you need to think on this a bit. --Rosiestep (talk) 04:45, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- We're also going to try to coordinate this campaign with other language Wikipedias (Arabic, Farsi, etc) on Meta, see meta:MENA Artists Month, similar to the recent Wikipedia Asian Month. The photography curator at the Guggenheim is quite interested in the Wikipedia outreach in general, and if not in May, will be glad to work with WiR and the community more in-depth in the future.--Pharos (talk) 18:20, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- @Rosiestep: Wikipedia is very weak on Africa. So I would welcome the opportunity to help out with the biographies of women from the Middle East and North Africa, both those involved in contemporary art and others from the cultural scene. As we have two intensive months on artists and writers coming up, we could perhaps devote just the first two weeks of May to this. I suggest you post these suggestions on the Events page where we can also discuss how to reschedule Women in Photography.--Ipigott (talk) 18:25, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- Photography has been on the schedule for many months. "[T]wo intensive months on artists and writers" says to me that we need to diversify our topics. Why can't we kill two birds with one stone and do photography and include MENA photographers? If the photography curator can provide images for a later editathon, it might be a reason to postpone, but I see no reason to keep toppling subjects that have been planned in advance. JMO. SusunW (talk) 19:39, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- OK, if you think we can cope with two in one month, I can go along with that too.--Ipigott (talk) 21:25, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- I love having the edit-a-thons. They keep me focused. We have a good list of photographers, like SusunW mentioned. Also, the Art+Feminism is also focused on activism, too right? The list I put together for Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/LBT Women has a lot of African activists. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:38, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- OK, if you think we can cope with two in one month, I can go along with that too.--Ipigott (talk) 21:25, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- Photography has been on the schedule for many months. "[T]wo intensive months on artists and writers" says to me that we need to diversify our topics. Why can't we kill two birds with one stone and do photography and include MENA photographers? If the photography curator can provide images for a later editathon, it might be a reason to postpone, but I see no reason to keep toppling subjects that have been planned in advance. JMO. SusunW (talk) 19:39, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
- More from the main talk page
This is my thought. Why not post more than one meetup page in a month? If only 1 or 2 or 3 people want to participate in that event, and create 2 or 4 or 6 new articles, we have gained much. First, Wikipedia has gained new articles. Second, WiR has gained new contributors. Third, Wir, may have gained new members. You mention "major contributors". Where is the downside of offering secondary options to major, minor, or new contributors?
As for MENA, the Guggenheim will focus on MENA artists. But I'm not convinced that m:Iranian Wikimedians User Group will focus only on artists or women. Each editor chooses. If I come across a Maltese or Afghan woman writer or ethnologist, I can contribute that article to a MENA event (We don't have to put a square peg in a round hole.). And, as I've learned in middle age that I am not unique, I know that others would share this view.
I remember sitting with the A+F folks in October 2015 in Washington D.C., and making a plan for WiR's collaboration as an online node for March 2016. I told Michael, Jackie, and Sian that WiR would be glad to collaborate, but how would they feel if WiR takes a broader approach -- includes feminists, activists, social reformers? They were very quick and gracious to say, "sure", "yes", "of course", although I doubt anyone had asked them that before. I want WiR to be that nimble... if someone else has an idea... go for it. I've been thinking about this a lot, and I firmly believe that in order for WiR to become a movement, we have to empower others from around the world who want to replicate our secret sauce: our brand and our scope. We have to be open to facilitating multiple events, in multiple languages at any given time. We have to encourage others to create meetup pages, send out invites, develop redlists, and so on. Amazing, that in less than a year, we've gotten to this point!!!!!!!!! Also, I think it may be time to elect some "Core Coordinators" (following the MILHIST and A+F models), in order to oversee the brand. I am responding to you here, but I'm also going to cross-post this on the WiR talkpage for greater visibility. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:58, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Hear! Hear! @Rosiestep: Totally agree. I think flexibility is the key and I don't see why we cannot combine events and/or topics. We reach a much broader group if we have diverse criteria and combining possibly disparate areas allows us to cover disparate populations, making us much more inclusive. I love that we don't just focus on eliminating one bias, but many. We are adding diversity to the encyclopedia too and that can only improve the encyclopedia. As we write about women we tackle misogyny; edithons about black women, indigenous women tackle racism and cultural diversity. Art+Feminism the way we have structured it covers all classes, from working class women to those in the leisured upper classes, which I think is imperative. We don't talk much about classism on WP, but it certainly exists, as it does in most encyclopedias. I think no matter the topic/topics, we'll attract those who are interested in it. I don't really know that we need separate sign up sheets, why can't we just do one per month with diverse topics? Don't understand what "Core Coordinators" are, can you elaborate? SusunW (talk) 16:23, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
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- @SusunW and Rosiestep: Then I withdraw all my previous suggestions/comments on this. I too had originally suggested having both the MENA modern artists and the photographers in May. But on re-reading the exchange (now on the events page), I thought I should give some support to the comment Susun made:
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- I seem to be having a really bad day today, misunderstanding everything. I think in future I'll just concentrate on the content and leave other considerations to all you dynamic girls. Please accept my apologies.--Ipigott (talk) 16:38, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Ipigott absolutely no need for apologies of any kind. You are an amazing supporter and contributor and I think we are much better for your input and insights. My concern in the comment before was that I did not want to replace photography with artists. I see zero reasons why we cannot do both. SusunW (talk) 16:46, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
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- I seem to be having a really bad day today, misunderstanding everything. I think in future I'll just concentrate on the content and leave other considerations to all you dynamic girls. Please accept my apologies.--Ipigott (talk) 16:38, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
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- At meta:MENA Artists Month, we are working to organize internationally, and also plan to adapt aspects of meta:Wikipedia Asian Month/2015 Edition with Guggenheim postcards or token physical prizes from the giftshop to top contributors. We hope to have WiR listed as a partner on that page too. The general scope is any MENA artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a particular highlight of the contemporary artists who are being recognized in the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. The official list of MAP artists is not out yet, but I believe it is probably majority women; obviously it would be appropriate for WiR to focus on the women MENA artists.--Pharos (talk) 19:50, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
- @SusunW: yes, photography stays on the schedule as is. I'm intrigued with the idea of a meetup page for an entire month, with multiple focuses. Sure, let's try it! How would you envision we do it, for say, May? --Rosiestep (talk) 02:56, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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- Rosiestep Just like this one Art+Feminism but instead Photography+MENA and then put the red links lists in for photographers, Middle Eastern Women, North African women, and whatever artists list the Guggenheim comes up with. Surely with 4 categories (or maybe its only 3 if MENA women are in one list), people will find something of interest to write about. SusunW (talk) 03:15, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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- @Rosiestep, SusunW, and Megalibrarygirl: For what it's worth, in my opinion I believe strong focus on an area provides greater incentive for participation and the likelihood of achieving more significant progress. If the Guggenheim is arranging an event in early May (see the discussion on the Ideas and events page), then I think that perhaps a shorter, highly focused WiR editathon (for one or max. two weeks) on the MENA artists is what we should be aiming for. I had originally proposed two weeks on photography and two weeks on modern MENA artists but, on reflection, I think we should allow photography to stretch over the full month. The MENA editathon could then be scheduled, say, from Saturday 7 to Sunday 15 May (if these dates are suitable for the Guggenheim). This would of course require setting up a separate meet-up page linked to specially prepared lists of red links, etc. I hope Pharos and the Guggenheim will assist here as we have virtually nothing on the countries of North Africa and the Middle East on our current Artists page. If we use this approach, then we can target contributors who have been active in the area without confusing them with our focus on photography. Both photography (for the full month) and MENA 20th/21st-century artists could then be listed separately under our events for May.--Ipigott (talk) 11:10, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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- @SusunW: yes, photography stays on the schedule as is. I'm intrigued with the idea of a meetup page for an entire month, with multiple focuses. Sure, let's try it! How would you envision we do it, for say, May? --Rosiestep (talk) 02:56, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
June
- Women in Entertainment
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- Women in Entertainment
- possible dates
- possible sponsor
- How about Women in Sports, Women in Fashion, Women Authors (could be broken up into Women in Shadows (mystery), Women in Thought (philosopy), etc.) , or Women in Journalism? Just throwing that out there. My time is limited but I try to jump in to help on these when I can. LovelyLillith (talk) 19:12, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
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- Again, being bold and putting it on the actual calendar. @Rosiestep and LovelyLillith: Writers/books/journalists is on calendar for April. Entertainers which Rosie has long wanted to do includes film, dance, fashion, comedy and stage. There are a lot of athletes in the various Halls of Fame Lillith, see July, so I think I got all of your wants included? Dates can always be changed, but if they aren't on the calendar they may never get moving. SusunW (talk) 16:06, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
July
- Hall of Fame laureates
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- Women in Halls of Fame
- possible dates
- possible sponsor
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- I am totally in favor of this one Rosiestep. Added it to the calendar. SusunW (talk) 16:06, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- I love the idea of doing Hall of Fame laureates. Working off the Kentucky Women Remembered list I learned about women that I might never have heard about otherwise. But some of these women are going to be tough to write.
- Many of these lists are created by State agencies or other organizations. They may have information about where to find images or sources that are not obvious. I'm going to create a list of the organizations to contact. Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Halls of Fame/Contact organizations. Once I get it sorted out maybe we can add the name of sponsoring organization to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Halls of Fame page or link to it. Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥♥ 21:47, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
- I am totally in favor of this one Rosiestep. Added it to the calendar. SusunW (talk) 16:06, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
August
August 1-14, 2016 - Indigenous Women
- Indigenous People's Day is August 9
- possible sponsor:
- Redlink lists: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Indigenous Women
August 20-30, 2016 - From Pole to Pole
- Sponsor: The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
- SCAR conference: 20-30 August
- SCAR "wikibomb": Tuesday, 23 August 2016, 6.00 - 8.00pm local time, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, 50088 Malaysia
- Redlink lists: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Antarctic women
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- What if we changed the title of this redlist to "polar women" and include a section on Arctic women, e.g. "Pole to Pole"? Or we could just have a separate redlist for Arctic women and that would be fine, too. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:04, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- I'm good with whatever just felt like if we didn't get it on the calendar, it'd get scheduled over. Ipigott was working on Greenland links, so may want to list Arctic separately, but I figured that there would be Arctic indigenous women in the earlier one. SusunW (talk) 18:27, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- Maybe it would be a good idea to have a separate list for Arctic women given the large Inuit populations of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and the Russian Far East. We already have three Lists of Inuit. It may also be useful to make a distinction between native Arctic women and female Arctic explorers (the latter could possibly been combined with female Antarctic explorers as several seem to have explored both areas). Megalibrarygirl may have some views on this.--Ipigott (talk) 08:40, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Ipigott and SusunW:I like the idea of separating the explorers from the people who actually live and work in the polar regions. But I'm happy to start a list for whatever we choose. I'll look at the inuit lists too. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:52, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
- Maybe it would be a good idea to have a separate list for Arctic women given the large Inuit populations of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and the Russian Far East. We already have three Lists of Inuit. It may also be useful to make a distinction between native Arctic women and female Arctic explorers (the latter could possibly been combined with female Antarctic explorers as several seem to have explored both areas). Megalibrarygirl may have some views on this.--Ipigott (talk) 08:40, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
- I'm good with whatever just felt like if we didn't get it on the calendar, it'd get scheduled over. Ipigott was working on Greenland links, so may want to list Arctic separately, but I figured that there would be Arctic indigenous women in the earlier one. SusunW (talk) 18:27, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
- What if we changed the title of this redlist to "polar women" and include a section on Arctic women, e.g. "Pole to Pole"? Or we could just have a separate redlist for Arctic women and that would be fine, too. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:04, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
September
Labor Day (in U.S.) is September 5. How about something for female labor organizers? (But let's not call it "Women In Labor".) Many of the strikers in the 1912 Lawrence textile strike were women, for example. Rosekelleher (talk) 16:49, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
October
November
December
Ideas
Year of Science
19-29 February 2016 - Year of Science Q1 Edit-a-thon- Wikipedia:Year of Science - Q1 themes - linguistics (January), zoology (February), chemistry (March)
- Sponsor(s): WikiEdu
- Co-host: WP:WikiProject Women scientists
- Redlink lists:
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- Looking at our event's calendar, this time spot (19-29 Feb) would be the only one available in 2016Q1 for Year of Science, so thought we could promote working on all 3 topics, linguistics, zoology, chemistry, at this time. Thoughts?
- @Keilana: are you and WikiProject Women scientists comfortable with this, and with being a co-host? --Rosiestep (talk) 18:30, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
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- Works for me Rosiestep Zoology is probably not my thing, but I can certainly do a few chemists or linguists. Balance will be the key trying to get ready for Women's History Month. SusunW (talk) 02:01, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- Maybe this would be better coordinated by Keilana through WikiProject Women scientists. I usually spend most of February each year preparing for Women's History Month - so I don't think I'll have much time for zoologists. In general, I have the feeling sound preparatory work (lists, categories, etc.) is suffering from our trying to take on too much at the same time. Furthermore, it's only a few weeks since we covered Women in Science. Do we really need to have another science event so soon? I suggest we limit our contribution to providing the list of redlinks.--Ipigott (talk) 08:33, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- Ok. Let's not add a second editathon in February. But linguistics and other social sciences interest me immensely and we haven't done that yet. Reviewing Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Women in science#Social science, I see an opportunity to do fun stuff by creating Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Red/Women in social science, fleshing it out, and hosting an editathon in 2016 on "Women in Social Sciences" (perhaps August or November to coincide with the Year of Science calendar?). --Rosiestep (talk) 18:43, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- Maybe this would be better coordinated by Keilana through WikiProject Women scientists. I usually spend most of February each year preparing for Women's History Month - so I don't think I'll have much time for zoologists. In general, I have the feeling sound preparatory work (lists, categories, etc.) is suffering from our trying to take on too much at the same time. Furthermore, it's only a few weeks since we covered Women in Science. Do we really need to have another science event so soon? I suggest we limit our contribution to providing the list of redlinks.--Ipigott (talk) 08:33, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- Works for me Rosiestep Zoology is probably not my thing, but I can certainly do a few chemists or linguists. Balance will be the key trying to get ready for Women's History Month. SusunW (talk) 02:01, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- January - (skipped)
- February - Zoology
- March - Chemistry
- April - Environmental science (potentially including earth science)
- May - Psychology
- June - Astronomy
- July - Plant biology
- August - Sociology
- September - Medicine
- October - Computer science / technology / math
- November - Linguistics
- December - Physics
- I'm happy with coordinating everything over at Women in Science, if y'all are ok with that. I'll keep everyone over here posted and of course, encourage everyone to join in over there! :) Keilana (talk) 00:42, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
Women In Education
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- Redlinked Educators
- possible dates
- possible sponsor
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- There has been a discussion on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women/Women_in_Red about having an editathon on Women in Music (possibly 10 to 31 January as there is plenty of work to be done). My preference would be for composers and instrumentalists. My reasoning is that music is an extremely important area with major contributions by women while many of our biographies in other fields also include education anyway. Maybe we could reschedule a special event on education later - April or May perhaps?--Ipigott (talk) 13:14, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
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Does he know? - a women biased article feed with lots of new stuff and pics
This is a suggestion that I have been considering. Would it be possible to create a "Did You Know" with positive systemic bias? We have enough material and the system for running it could be lifted from DYK. We could get more DHK noms by allowing imperfection. In order for this to work then we need to find a method of publication. We could not use the main page and our own portal is not popular enough. Can we find thousands of people who would follow a womens' only DHK feed. A phone app?, A Twitter feed, Pinterest, ???, ??? I suspect that the people who would like to read about history and culture from the view of female biographies and related subjects. If we ensured that we always had a picture then that would make it more visually appealing and it would make Pinterest etc work. Would journos talk about this? Follow it? I'm not suggesting that we compete with DYK, this would accept 1,000 characters, and approve everything in 10 days, and publish more per hour!! We already have lists of new articles we could publish nearly all of these and you would get a new one every x minutes or so.Victuallers (talk) 11:18, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
- I like the idea but I don't like the name! It seems to be targeting men only and directing the attention away from a female reader - I wouldn't read it TBH, I'd think "why do I care what men know or don't!!" LOL!! Is there some way of pointing the question to the subject material e.g. "Do you know her?" MurielMary (talk) 21:42, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
Women in Film
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- possible sponsor
Book artists & artists' books
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- possible dates: sometime between October 2016 and May 2017?
- possible sponsor: UC Irvine
Librarians at the University of California, Irvine (where I teach) would be interested in sponsoring an editathon on book artists and artists' books. UCI's Langson Library has a fine collection of 20th century artists' books, and one of their librarians who has worked with me on some meetups has noticed how poor the representation of even major book artists is on Wikipedia. I'm interested in this too, partly because it's an area of art that is often associated with both women and crafts and so doesn't always get appropriate visibility. The best time for such an editathon would be in the academic year, which for UCI runs, practically speaking, October-May. Any interest?Alafarge (talk) 21:01, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Past events
- Once an event is finished, please move the event's info from this page to the editathon's talkpage.
- See WP:CORRECTSPLIT for proper attribution when moving comments/content, etc.
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